Commercial Prices in Texas Commercial customers have fared better than residential customers under Texas electric deregulation. By R.A. Dyer Individual Texas residential consumers buying electricity from competitive power providers historically have paid more than...
More typically, real-time prices remain below $30 and only on two other occasions in grid history have they reached the $9,000 cap. Real-time energy prices in ERCOT surged to the $9,000-megawatt-hour cap on Tuesday, the result of triple-digit temperatures...
Only once before in grid history has the price hit the $9,000 mark. ERCOT recently recorded a dramatic $9,000-per-megawatt hour price in a segment of the wholesale power market — the very highest allowed — and the spike prompted a complaint to Texas...
The Dallas Morning News, in a June 19 editorial, urged the PUC to create rules for utility-scale battery storage. Act now. That’s the message from The Dallas Morning News, which in a recent editorial called upon Texas regulators to forge new rules for utility-scale...
Nothing in the legislation requires cable and phone companies to pass along any savings to consumers. It could cost the City of San Antonio $7.3 million. For Dallas it means $9.3 million. For Houston it could amount to a whopping $24 million. These are the...
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